not the greatest of weeks

donsterydo2 said: I don't care about Japan because Japanese don't buy western games and western games are the biggest part in gaming. But yes it exists

Very Western: Top 25 best selling games of the last decade (not including MW2, NSMBWii)

Are you sure he didn't say "except for launch weeks of (list of some games)"?

@puffy: I was talking about hardcore-no-Nintendo gaming I always am

Oh I'm sorry, of course you were, never mind me

puffy said: donsterydo2 said: I don't care about Japan because Japanese don't buy western games and western games are the biggest part in gaming. But yes it exists Very Western: Top 25 best selling games of the last decade (not including MW2, NSMBWii) # World Sales in 2000-2009 Publisher Platform Debut Sales 1 Wii Sports Nintendo Wii Nov-06 44.50m 2 Wii Play Nintendo Wii Dec-06 22.70m 3 Nintendogs Nintendo DS Apr-05 22.09m 4 New Super Mario Brothers Nintendo DS May-06 18.47m 5 Wii Fit Nintendo Wii Dec-07 17.89m 6 GTA: San Andreas Take Two PS2 Oct-04 17.78m 7 Brain Training Nintendo DS May-05 17.33m 8 Pokemon Gold/Silver Nintendo GB Nov-99 ~17.00m 9 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Nintendo DS Sep-06 16.79m 10 Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire Nintendo GBA Nov-02 15.40m 11 Mario Kart Wii Nintendo Wii Apr-08 15.38m 12 Gran Turismo 3: A Spec Sony PS2 Apr-01 14.87m 13 Mario Kart DS Nintendo DS Nov-05 14.56m 14 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Take Two PS2 Oct-02 14.20m 15 Brain Age 2 Nintendo DS Dec-05 13.87m 16 Grand Theft Auto III Take Two PS2 Oct-01 11.60m 17 Animal Crossing: Wild World Nintendo DS Nov-05 10.67m 18 Pokemon Yellow Nintendo GB Sep-98 ~10.60m 19 Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green Nintendo GBA Jan-04 10.49m 20 Gran Turismo 4 Sony PS2 Dec-04 9.65m 21 Halo 3 Microsoft X360 Sep-07 9.40m 22 Super Smash Brothers Brawl Nintendo Wii Jan-08 8.51m 23 Halo 2 Microsoft Xbox Nov-04 8.46m 24 Super Mario Galaxy Nintendo Wii Nov-07 8.01m 25 Final Fantasy X Square-Enix PS2 Jul-01 7.95m

This post is so full of win!

So then Japan doesn't count because Western games are the biggest part in "hardcore gaming"?

I think Japan should count because Japan games are the biggest part in "gaming" period.

This time last year:

DS 274,039
Wii 103,977
360 55,626
PS2 49,177
PS3 41,440
PSP 35,020

Wii up 2K YoY, 360 up 15K, PS3 up 24K.

Ok, this is bad for Wii to be flat all of a sudden (with an easy comparison), but I can actually understand if the volcano disrupted things here since Wii was not exactly in fantastic supply already (warehouses would be unlikely to compensate for disrupted supplies), and the closing of Euro air space could have disrupted shipments even for the US.

These numbers are the numbers in line with NPD figures so have to say fair play to Vgc. Rather then continue going the 100k+ route with the PS3 of the previous few weeks they have gone back and put them roughly at the same as NPD. Which now most likely shows the true level of current demand for all three consoles. Which is nowhere near as high as some try to make out.

Here is last years sales
Wii - 103k
360 - 55k
Ps3 - 41k

edit had the wrong year.....